{"id":57215,"date":"2017-05-06T03:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/bilingual-speakers-experience-time-differently-to-people-who-only-speak-one-language-study-finds"},"modified":"2017-05-06T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T10:42:31","slug":"bilingual-speakers-experience-time-differently-to-people-who-only-speak-one-language-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/bilingual-speakers-experience-time-differently-to-people-who-only-speak-one-language-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual speakers experience time differently to people who only speak one language, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bilingual-speakers-experience-time-differently-to-people-who-only-speak-one-language-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who can only speak one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/language\">language<\/a>, people who have the ability to speak multiple are often a source of fascination. What language do they think in? Can they switch mid-way through? Do they only dream in one language or both?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, these questions are not without merit as people who can speak two languages actually experience time in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>A study from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/news\/articles\/2017\/language-shapes-how-the-brain-perceives-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lancaster University<\/a> and Stockholm University, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that people who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bilingual\">bilingual<\/a> think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/bilingual-speakers-time-different-people-one-language-study-swedish-spanish-a7715146.html?cmpid=facebook-post\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/bilingual-speakers-t...ebook-post<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who can only speak one language, people who have the ability to speak multiple are often a source of fascination. What language do they think in? Can they switch mid-way through? Do they only dream in one language or both? It turns out, these questions are not without merit as people who can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}